jointures. IV. To save our youth from destruction by suppressing gaming
tables, and Sunday debauches. V. To avoid the expensive importation of
foreign musicians by promoting an academy of our own, [_Anticipation of
the Royal Academy of Music_], &c. &c. London: T. Warner. 1728. 8vo."

"_Second Thoughts are Best_; or a further Improvement of a late Scheme
to prevent Street Robberies, by which our Streets will be so strongly
guarded and so gloriously illuminated, that any Part of London will be
as safe and pleasant at Midnight as at Noonday; and Burglary totally
impracticable [_a remarkable anticipation of the present state of
things in the principal thoroughfares_]. With some Thoughts for
suppressing Robberies in all the Public Roads of England [_rural police
anticipated_]. Humbly offer'd for the Good of his Country, submitted to
the Consideration of Parliament, and dedicated to his Sacred Majesty
Geo. II., by Andrew Moreton, Esq. [supposed to be an assumed name; a
common practice of De Foe's]. London. W. Meadows, 1729."

R. D. H.

"_Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon!_"--The above text is often quoted as
not being in accordance with the present state of our astronomical
knowledge, and many well-known commentators on the Bible have adopted the
same opinion.

I find Kitto, in the _Pictorial Bible_, characterising it as "an example of
those bold metaphors and poetical forms of expression with which the
Scriptures abound." Scott (edit. 1850) states that "it would have been
improper that he (Joshua) should speak, or that the miracle should be
recorded according to the terms of modern astronomy."

Mant (edit. 1830) says: "It is remarkable that the terms in which this
event is recorded do not agree with what is now known rewarding the motion
of the heavenly bodies."

Is it certain that Joshua's words are absolutely at variance and
irreconcileable with the present state of astronomical knowledge?
Astronomers allow that the sun is the centre and governing principle of our
system, and that it revolves on its axis. What readier means, then, could
Joshua have found for staying the motion of our planet, than by commanding
the revolving centre, in its inseparable connexion with all planetary
motion, to stand still?

I. K.

_Langley's Polidore Vergile._--At the back of the title of a copy of
Langley's _Abridgement of Polidore Vergile_, 8vo., Lond. 1546, seen by
Hearn